Publishing History of the Proceedings

• S. Devereaux, The City and the Sessions Paper: 'Public Justice' in London, 1770-1800, Journal of British Studies, 35 (1996), pp. 466–503.
• S. Devereaux, The Fall of the Sessions Paper: Criminal Trial and the Popular Press in Late Eighteenth-Century London, Criminal Justice History, 18 (2002), pp. 57–88.
• M. Harris, Trials and Criminal Biographies: A Case Study in Distribution, in Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, ed. by R. Myers and M. Harris (Oxford, 1982).
• A. McKenzie, Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770, in Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, ed. by Greg T. Smith, Allyson N. May and Simon Devereaux (Toronto, 1998).

Value of the Proceedings as Historical Evidence

• J. H. Langbein, The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers, The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978), pp. 263–316.
• J. H. Langbein, Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources, University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983), pp. 1–36.
• J. H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (Oxford, 2003).
• Allyson May, The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and London, 2003).

Advertising

• Jeremy Black, The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1987).
• Bernard Capp, Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacks 1500-1800 (London, 1979).
• Francis Doherty, A Study in Eighteenth-Century Advertising Methods: The Anodyne Necklace (Lewiston NY, 1992).
• John Feather, A History of British Publishing (London, 1988).
• Michael Harris, London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press (London, 1987).
• Margaret Hunt, Hawkers, Bawlers and Mercuries: Women and the London Press in the Early Englightenment, Women and History, 9 (1984), pp. 41–68.
• A. Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1999).
• Lawrence Lewis, The Advertisements of the Spectator being a Study of the Literature, History, and Manners of Queen Anne's England as they are Reflected Therein (London, 1909).
• Paula McDowell, The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 (Oxford, 1998).
• Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (London, 1972).
• James Sutherland, The Restoration Newspaper and its Development (Cambridge, 1986).
• R. B. Walter, Advertising in London Newspapers, 1650-1750, Business History, 15 (1973), pp. 112–30.