Margaret of York that year allowed her to be spared the grief of Philip's untimely death of typhoid fever in 1506. William Caxton, who introduced the new art of printing into the Kingdom of England and was a staunch Yorkist supporter, counted Margaret as one of his patrons. A presentation copy of "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye", the first book printed in the English language (late 1473 – early 1474), has a specially made engraving showing Caxton presenting the book to Margaret. The volume is now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. This "patronage" may be more advertising than analogous to
Bruges-la-Morte the Flemish film director Roland Verhavert adapted the novel as ""Brugge, die stille"". The novel influenced many later writers, including W.G. Sebald. The plot of the book may also have influenced the French crime novel "D'entre les morts" by Boileau-Narcejac, which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as "Vertigo" in 1958. Bruges-la-Morte Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons, it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs. A translation by Thomas Duncan