<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> For over 200 years, legal publishing has been a highly influential segment of the book trade. Always staying close to prevailing opinion while remaining flexible enough to embrace shifts in the established order, legal publishers have succeeded in becoming a major component of the legal system. This work describes strategies for success in the world of legal literature from its beginnings in the 19th century up to the early post-war era.