Lotte Hellinga

Lotte Hellinga was born in 1932. She studied at Amsterdam University under W. Hellinga who later became her husband.

Hellinga was a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1967 to 1976.

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.

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

She is an expert in the work of William Caxton.

• 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