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. She studied at Amsterdam University under W. Hellinga who later became her husband.

Career

Hellinga was a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1976, and General Secretary of the Consortium of European research libraries from 1992 to 2002. Formerly she was deputy keeper of the British Library.

In 1990, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and, from 1991 to 1994, was a member of its Council.

She is an expert in the work of the fifteenth-century printer William Caxton.

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

See also

• History of books