About the Proceedings
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Publishing History of the Proceedings
Devereaux, S.. The City and the Sessions Paper: 'Public Justice' in London, 1770-1800. Journal of British Studies, 35 (1996). pp: 466-503.
Devereaux, S.. 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.
Harris, M.. Trials and Criminal Biographies: A Case Study in Distribution. In Myers, R., Harris, M. (ed), Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700. Oxford, 1982.
McKenzie, A.. Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770. In Smith, Greg T, May, Allyson N., Devereaux, Simon (ed), Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie. Toronto, 1998.
Value of the Proceedings as Historical Evidence
Langbein, J. H.. The Criminal Trial before the Lawyers. The University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (1978). pp: 263-316.
Langbein, J. H.. Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources. University of Chicago Law Review, 50:1 (1983). pp: 1-36.
Langbein, J. H.. The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial. Oxford, 2003.
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May, Allyson. The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and London, 2003.
Advertising
Black, Jeremy. The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. London, 1987.
Capp, Bernard. Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacks 1500-1800. London, 1979.
Doherty, Francis. A Study in Eighteenth-Century Advertising Methods: The Anodyne Necklace. Lewiston NY, 1992.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. London, 1988.
Harris, Michael. London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole: A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press. London, 1987.
Hunt, Margaret. Hawkers, Bawlers and Mercuries: Women and the London Press in the Early Englightenment. Women and History, 9 (1984). pp: 41-68.
Johns, A.. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago, 1999.
Lewis, Lawrence. 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.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Oxford, 1998.
Rogers, Pat. Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture. London, 1972.
Sutherland, James. The Restoration Newspaper and its Development. Cambridge, 1986.
Walter, R. B.. Advertising in London Newspapers, 1650-1750. Business History, 15 (1973). pp: 112-30.
