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According to Wikipedia, James Russell Raven LittD FBA FSA is a British scholar specializing in the history of the book. His published works include The English Novel 1770-1829 , The Business of Books , and What is the History of the Book? . As of 2019, he was Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Essex.

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Judging New Wealth (1992) (216)
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (2007) (153)
New reading histories, print culture and the identification of change: The case of eighteenth‐century England 1 (1998) (121)
Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (1992) (116)
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 (2007) (105)
The Noble Brothers and Popular Publishing, 1737–89 (1990) (87)
British Fiction, 1750-1770: A Chronological Check-List of Prose Fiction Printed in Britain and Ireland (1987) (76)
The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, volume 1, 1770-1799 (2000) (64)
The economic context (2002) (47)
The business of books (2007) (47)
London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811 (2002) (29)
VIEWPOINT BRITISH HISTORY AND THE ENTERPRISE CULTURE (1989) (27)
Lost libraries : the destruction of great book collections since antiquity (2004) (25)
Chained to the desk (2005) (20)
The book as a commodity (2009) (20)
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England (2014) (19)
The Abolition of the English State Lotteries (1991) (16)
The Anonymous Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1750–1830 (2003) (15)
THE INVENTION OF NEWS (2015) (15)
Libraries for sociability: the advance of the subscription library (2006) (13)
When London Was Capital of America (2011) (10)
Debating Bibliomania and the Collection of Books in the Eighteenth Century (2013) (10)
Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing since 1700 (2019) (9)
Books between Europe and the Americas Connections and Communities, 1620-1860 (2011) (8)
London and the central sites of the English book trade (2009) (7)
Bookscape : geographies of printing and publishing in London before 1800 (2014) (7)
Books between Europe and the Americas (2011) (6)
Publishing and bookselling 1660–1780 (2005) (6)
An Antidote to the French?: English Novels in German Translation and German Novels in English Translation 1770-99 (2002) (5)
The Promotion and Constraints of Knowledge: The Changing Structure of Publishing in Victorian Britain (2005) (3)
Introduction: The Resonances of Loss (2004) (3)
Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House (2015) (3)
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY: DICTIONARY OR ENCYCLOPAEDIA? (2007) (3)
Debating the Lottery in Britain c. 1750-1830 (2016) (2)
The representation of philanthropy and reading in the eighteenth-century library (1996) (2)
The industrial revolution of the book (2014) (2)
The material contours of the English novel 1750-1830 (2007) (2)
Why Ephemera Were Not Ephemeral: The Effectiveness of Innovative Print in the Eighteenth Century (2022) (2)
Distribution: The transmission of books in Europe and its colonies: Contours, cautions, and global comparisons (2015) (1)
Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World by Eve Tavor Bannet (review) (2020) (1)
Country houses and the beginnings of bibliomania (2015) (1)
Reactions to Fashion and Luxury (1992) (1)
Viscount Townshend and the Cambridge Prize for Trade Theory, 1754–1756 (1985) (1)
The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive (2004) (1)
Mapping Print Culture from Eighteenth-Century London (2007) (1)
Assumptive Gentry and the Threat to Stability (1992) (1)
Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800 (2011) (1)
Defending Trade in the Provinces: The Gentleman Merchant and Mrs Gomersall of Leeds (1992) (1)
Vulgarity and Social Grammar (1992) (0)
The Demolished Mansions of Essex and the Marks Hall Estate: Reconstruction and the Heritage of Loss (2015) (0)
Reviews : General and Comparative Studies Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print. By Lisa Jardine. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. x + 284. £19.95 (1995) (0)
From Worcester to Longman: Devising the History of the Book (2015) (0)
The Representation of the City in the Age of Mozart (1995) (0)
A far from pedestrian theme (1993) (0)
Jobbing Printing in Late Early Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity (2020) (0)
Magnate of information (1997) (0)
Worlds of print (1997) (0)
A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (2010) (0)
Raking the regency (1995) (0)
Pretensions to Land (1992) (0)
Promotion and Defence (1992) (0)
JOHN BUGG (ed.). The Joseph Johnson Letterbook. (2016) (0)
Booksellers in court: Approaches to the legal history of copyright in England before 1842 (2012) (0)
Merchants, Gentility and Christian Conduct (1992) (0)
Printing and Printedness (2015) (0)
Transforming the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade (2019) (0)
Booksellers and Markets (1992) (0)
'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice (2014) (0)
L'exemple britannique (2001) (0)
The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces, by Stephen Orgel (2017) (0)
Production (2018) (0)
From Worcester to Longman (2014) (0)
Edmund Curll, Bookseller (2008) (0)
Runge, Laura L., and Pat Rogers, eds.Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650–1800. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 298 pp. Illus. Cloth, $65.00 (isbn978-0-87413-069-0). (2011) (0)
THE MANUFACTURERS OF LITERATURE (Book) (2002) (0)
Non-metropolitan printing and business in Britain and Ireland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries (2016) (0)
How texts live on (1994) (0)
Fears of Ruination (1992) (0)
Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century, by Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman (2017) (0)
Abigail Williams. The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home. (2018) (0)
Print for Free: Unsolicited Literature in Comparative Perspective (2019) (0)
A Publishing History of a Prohibited Best-Seller: The Abbé de Vertot and his Histoire de Malte by Robert Thake (review) (2018) (0)
The Demolished Mansions of Essex and the Marks Hall Estate (2015) (0)
Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial America (2019) (0)

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