James Russell Raven (born 13 April 1959) is a British scholar specializing in the history of the book. His published works include The English Novel 1770-1829 (2000), The Business of Books (2007), and What is the History of the Book? (2018). As of 2019, he was Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Essex.
Books in order of publication:
Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750–1800 (Oxford University Press, 1992)
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge University Press, 1996), with Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor (eds.)
(ed.) Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing (London and Vermont: Ashgate Press, 2000)
The English Novel 1770–1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2000), with Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling)
London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748–1811 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
(ed.) Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Book Collections Since Antiquity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450–1850 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) awarded the De Long prize for 2008
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014)
What is the History of the Book?. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2018..
(ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book. (Oxford University Press, 2020.
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