Halsbury's Laws of England
The narrative encyclopaedia of English law. Any edition, 3rd to 5th.
Sell your set →Every title, A-Z
What We Buy
Wondering who buys law books, or who buys legal textbooks specifically? As one of the UK's specialist legal book buyers, this is the complete list — complete and partial sets, current or outdated editions. If it's a recognised English law report, encyclopaedia, or practitioner text and it isn't listed here, ask anyway — we're almost certainly still interested.
The three biggest categories
What most enquiries are about.
All England Law Reports
Bound volumes from any period since 1936, including the Reprint.
Sell your set →The Law Reports & WLR
ICLR's official series, since 1865, and its weekly companion.
Sell The Law Reports & WLR →Encyclopaedias & statutes
The reference works most libraries are built around.
Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales
The companion set — full text of every Public General Act in force.
Atkin's Court Forms
The UK's only encyclopaedia of civil litigation forms and precedents.
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
A comprehensive multi-volume precedent set, alongside Atkin's.
Current Law
Yearbooks and Monthly Digests, since 1947.
Lloyd's Law Reports
Maritime and commercial case reports since 1919.
Family Law Reports
Judgments in family law cases, complete or partial runs.
Criminal Appeal Reports
Published since 1908, complete or partial runs.
Fleet Street Reports
Intellectual property law reports, since 1963.
Industrial Cases Reports
Employment law reports, since 1972.
The English Reports
176 volumes of case law, 1220 to 1866.
Practitioner texts
The standard works, subject by subject.
Chitty on Contracts
The leading text on English contract law, since 1826.
Archbold
Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice — the Crown Court standard.
Blackstone's Criminal Practice
The annual alternative to Archbold, since 1991.
The White Book
The standard civil procedure text, tracing back to 1883.
Blackstone's Civil Practice
The annual alternative to the White Book.
Woodfall: Landlord and Tenant
The standard reference on landlord and tenant law.
Clerk & Lindsell on Torts
The leading practitioner text on the law of tort.
Phipson on Evidence
The standard text on the law of evidence.
McGregor on Damages
The leading text on the assessment of damages.
Emmet on Title
The standard text on conveyancing and title, since 1899.
Simon's Taxes
The leading UK direct tax reference service, since 1948.
Formats & condition
Loose-leaf, journals, and damaged sets — yes to all three.
Loose-leaf services
Binder sets, even where the filing has slipped.
Legal journals
Bound runs of LQR, MLR, Crim LR and more.
Damaged books
Damage affects the figure, not whether we’ll take it.
Why a specialist
We deal only in English law books.
A general second-hand dealer prices a law library by weight, because judging a broken run of Halsbury’s takes knowing the set. What a specialist UK buyer does differently →
Don't see your set?
Ask anyway — most English law titles are of interest.
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.
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.