Today in 1477, William Caxton printed The Dictes or Sayengis of the Phylosophers, the first dated book printed in England.
It was Anthony Woodville’s translation, based on an earlier French translation, of a wisdom literature compendium written in Arabic by the medieval Arab scholar al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik.
Caxton established England's first-ever press in Westminster, London, in 1476. He is credited with printing as many as 108 books, 24 of which he translated himself. Britannica: “His varied output—including books of chivalric romance, conduct, morality, history, and philosophy and an encyclopaedia, The Myrrour of the Worlde (1481), the first illustrated English book—shows that he catered also to a general public.”