1. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac is a series of essays particularizing aspects of his love of books as literature and as objects that represent the art of book making

2. God save yow, that Boghte agayn mankynde, And yow amende!"1 In this passage the treasure, which critics of the tale have regarded as primary in the action of the story, appears in a context which the narrator spends time particularizing and identifying, narrowing his focus from "wey" to "grove" to "tree" to "ook." The oak tree here is