Lotte Hellinga
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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 formerly deputy keeper British Library. She is an expert in the work of William Caxton.[3]
She was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1990.[2]
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.
- Analytical bibliography and the study of early printed books, 1989.
- William Caxton and early printing in England, 2010.
- 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, 2009.
- Texts in transit: From manuscript to proof and print in the fifteenth century, 2014.