Lotte Hellinga

Lotte Hellinga, FBA (née Querido, 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 the University of Amsterdam under Wytze Hellinga who became her husband in 1973. 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) Caxton in Focus: The Beginning of Printing in England. British Library, 1982. Analytical Bibliography and the Study of Early Printed Books, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1989. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Vol. III: 1400-1557. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. (Editor, with J. B. Trapp) 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. William Caxton and Early Printing in England. British Library, London, 2010. Texts in Transit: From Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century. Brill, Leiden, 2014. Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade. Brill, 2018.