Lotte Hellinga was born in 1932.^[1] She studied at the University of Amsterdam under Wytze Hellinga who became her husband in 1973.^[2]

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.^[2] Formerly she was deputy keeper of the British Library.

In 1989 she was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz.

Hellinga was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.^[3] In 1990, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and from 1991 to 1994, was a member of its Council.^[2]

She is an expert in the work of the fifteenth-century printer William Caxton.^[4]

• 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. ISBN 9780712350884
• Texts in Transit: From Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century. Brill, Leiden, 2014. ISBN 9789004277168
• Incunabula in Transit: People and Trade. Brill, 2018.

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