This chapter focuses on the vocational literature produced mainly for and by common lawyers, together with books on or about the law marketed to a lay audience. Criminal biography and accounts of criminal trials almost certainly constituted the largest body of law-related literature circulating in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Law books were mostly written by lawyers, whose title page identification as such helped establish the authority and credibility of their books. Legal authorship, especially law reporting and treatise writing, was a recognized career option for younger barristers by the end of our period. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw massive increases in the volume of parliamentary transactions committed to print and major changes in the organization of that printing. While English law was increasingly shaped by parliamentary statute during the same period, the chapter presents a brief sketch of these complex developments.