Lotte Hellinga

Lotte Hellinga FBA (born 1932) is a book historian and expert in early printing. She is an authority on the work of William Caxton.

Early life

Lotte Hellinga was born in 1932.^[1] She studied at Amsterdam University under W. Hellinga who later became her husband.^[2]

Career

Hellinga was a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1976.^[2]

Hellinga was formerly deputy keeper British Library.

She was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1990. She was a member of the Council, 1991-1994.^[2]

General Secretary Consortium of European research libraries (1992 - 2002).

She is an expert in the work of William Caxton.^[3]

Selected publications

• The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries, 1966. (With W. Hellinga)
• The Cambridge history of the book in Britain, (vol 3). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. (Editor)
• Analytical bibliography and the study of early printed books, 1989.
• William Caxton and early printing in England. British Library, London, 2010. ISBN 9780712350884
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Library, Vol 11 ("England") 2007.
• Printing in England in the fifteenth century: Duff's bibliography with supplementary descriptions &c. The Bibliographical Society, London, 2009.
• Texts in transit: From manuscript to proof and print in the fifteenth century. Brill, Leiden, 2014. ISBN 9789004277168

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