Bisel Company has been continuously serving the Pennsylvania legal profession for years. Our company was established in 1876 by William F. Bisel, who was joined one year later by his 16 year-old brother; George. Together they sold law blanks and stationery in the early days of business. William Bisel died in 1881 leaving George to carry on the humble enterprise.

Mr. Bisel traveled throughout Pennsylvania calling on lawyers and judges with a product line that included law blanks, stationery, pen points, ink and pencils, since stationery stores as we know them today were not widely available outside the big cities. In time, used law books were added to the line, and the way was paved for us to develop our own line of new publications. The oldest invoice the company has found from this period is dated December 27, 1880.

Modest quarters were later rented in Philadelphia at Sixth and Walnut Streets, followed by moves to several locations in the 700 block of Sansom Street, which was near the old Court House on Independence Square, and prior to the time that block developed into the famed "Jeweler's Row" of today. During this period, Mr. Bisel began publishing new Pennsylvania legal publications, including predecessors of what later became major Pennsylvania reference and practice sets, such as Purdon's Pa. Digest, Dunlap's Book of Forms and Tourbat & Haly's Practice. Mr. Bisel died in March, 1941, at the age of 82.

The modern era was begun with our move to 710 South Washington Square in May 1948 with a 15 year lease, and subsequent purchase of our building in 1963. With continuing family management, this period saw the beginning of our current publication program of contemporary Pennsylvania practice texts, which is still being expanded, and today forms the bulwark of the comprehensive and respected lines of legal materials we offer to the profession as the leader in treatises on practice and procedure in our Commonwealth.

Now, with the involvement of the fourth generation of family management, we look forward to continuing the year tradition of service to the Pennsylvania Bench and Bar, by seeking to expand and improve access to vital and instructional legal information and procedures, both in the books we sell and in the services we provide to our valued customers.