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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. 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, 2009.
  • Texts in transit: From manuscript to proof and print in the fifteenth century. Brill, Leiden, 2014. ISBN 9789004277168

References

  1. ^ http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095929480
  2. ^ a b Dr Lotte Hellinga. British Academy. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  3. ^ "'Incredibly rare' William Caxton print discovered". Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 9 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.