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
Troilus and Cressida that is not part of Greek mythology; Shakespeare drew on a number of sources for this plotline, in particular Chaucer's version of the tale, "Troilus and Criseyde", but also John Lydgate's "Troy Book" and Caxton's translation of the "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye". Chaucer's source was "Il Filostrato" by Boccaccio, which in turn derives from a 12th-century French text, Benoît de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie" The story of the persuasion of Achilles into battle is drawn from Homer's "Iliad" (perhaps in the translation by George Chapman), and from various medieval and Renaissance retellings. The story was a popular one