William Green

In 1875 William Green, former Court of Session clerk, began a bookselling business in the Old Town of Edinburgh to cater to his former colleagues. His son Charles took over in 1885 and turned it into a successful publishing firm, initiating popular standard legal reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Scots Law, the Scots Style Book, and in 1893 starting the weekly legal newspaper the Scots Law Times, which soon became the authoritative source of Scottish legal case reporting.

The firm also expanded its range to encompass accounting, agricultural and medical texts, particularly after 1906 when it took over the old Edinburgh firm Bell & Bradfute. It in turn was taken over by the English law publishers Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. in 1956, which in turn was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 1987.

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