Possibly a book-worm, or even a bookseller might draw as many similes as Shakespeare did, from books—as for example:
"Show me your image in some antique book."
—Sonnet, 1. ix.
"Has a book in his pocket with red letters in it."
—2 Henry VI, ix, 2.
"My red dominical—my golden letter!"
—Loves Labours Lost, V, 2.
referring to the rubricated editions of books so common in the seventh century, or the golden letters used in the calendar; or again,
"To place upon the volume of your deeds
As in a title-page, your worth of arms."