The first dated book printed in England in English was Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres in 1477. Caxton printed romances, books of conduct and philosophy, history and morality and the first illustrated book in English, called The Myrrour of the Worlde, in 1481. He printed The Canterbury Tales, two editions, as well as other works by Chaucer, Malory’s Morte d ’Arthur and work by Gower and Lydgate and his own translations.
