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Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton's Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga's evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.

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An intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists. Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600-603 Lotte Hellinga hoort tot de top in het veld . In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga [...] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken. (Lotte Hellinga is among the top in the field . In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.) Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88-89

an intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists . Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. NO. 3 (autumn 2018), pp. 600-603.

an intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists . Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. NO. 3 (autumn 2018), pp. 600-603. Lotte Hellinga hoort tot de top in het veld . In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga [...] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken . (Lotte Hellinga is among the top in the field . In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history. ) Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88-89.

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Lotte Hellinga, Litt.D. (1974, University of Amsterdam) was, until 1995, Deputy Keeper at the British Library, where she initiated the ISTC database and completed the BMC incunabula catalogue. She published extensively on book history, early typography, the book trade and textual transmission in incunabula. Her most recent book is Texts in Transit (Brill, 2014).

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