Edinburgh's law book buyer

Sell Law Books in Edinburgh

Scotland's legal capital — and a market for English law texts too.

We buy Halsbury's Laws, All England Law Reports, and other practitioner sets from chambers, firms, and individual practitioners across Edinburgh and the Lothians — free collection, valued within 24 hours. Our Edinburgh law book collection reaches every postcode in the area.

Free collection in Edinburgh Valued within 24 hours Complete or partial sets

Local context

Scots law is different — but plenty of English law texts end up here too.

Edinburgh is home to Scotland's courts and its legal establishment, though Scots law is a distinct system from the law of England and Wales, and our core catalogue — Halsbury's Laws, the All England Law Reports, and the practitioner texts that go with them — covers English law specifically.

As the seat of the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh's legal profession is naturally focused on Scots law — concentrated physically around Parliament House and Parliament Square, home to the Faculty of Advocates, the Advocates Library, and the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland. English law materials still turn up here, though, in academic collections, cross-border practices, and the libraries of dual-qualified practitioners. We collect from Edinburgh and the Lothians.

What we buy

The same sets, wherever you're based.

We buy the full range of English law reports, encyclopaedias, and practitioner texts — see everything we buy. Curious why English law books turn up in Scotland at all? read more here.

Not sure what your set is worth yet? Valuing a Halsbury's set, valuing All England Law Reports, and the full process start to finish all cover it.

From here, and from everywhere else

Collection in Edinburgh works the same as anywhere.

Free collection, a valuation within 24 hours from photographs, and the same terms wherever the books are. We also collect in Glasgow. See everywhere we collect.

What we buy

English law reports, practitioner texts and encyclopaedias, complete or partial. Everything we buy →

Who we collect from

Firms, chambers, retiring practitioners and executors. Retiring from practice →

A whole library

A full room of shelving, or several sites cleared in one go. Library buyout and office clearance →

Common questions

Selling from Edinburgh

Do you buy Scots law texts, like the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia?

No — our catalogue is England and Wales law specifically. We're not the right buyer for Scots law materials.

Why would English law texts be in Edinburgh at all?

Cross-border practices, dual-qualified practitioners, and academic or historic collections are the most common sources.

Do I need a complete set to sell?

No — we buy complete and partial sets. Tell us what you have and we'll value it accordingly.

Based in Edinburgh?

Submit an enquiry and get a valuation for your set.

Four details and we’ll come back with a valuation, usually within 24 hours. Nothing to catalogue or sort first, and no obligation either way.

A rough description is plenty — “three full bays” tells us as much as a count. Edition and year help if you know them, but don’t go looking.

Free collection across the UK and Ireland, boxes included. We’ll never share your details.

Prefer to talk it through? Call 0161 531 8232, any day, any hour — or use the longer form if you want to attach photographs.

Received

We’ve got your enquiry.

Your reference is your enquiry. Worth a note — quoting it saves you explaining everything again if you call.

We’ll review what you’ve sent and come back with a valuation, normally within 24 hours. If anything’s unclear we’ll ask — usually just one question.

Got photographs? Send them to info@SellLawBooks.co.uk quoting your reference and we’ll add them to the file.