Definition of "volume" []

• A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book. (noun)
• One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book. (noun)
• A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year. (noun)
• A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library. (noun)
• A roll of parchment; a scroll. (noun)

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• "The editor acknowledges that the poem itself, from the unpruned luxuriance of the author's powers, "has remained a sealed volume" -- certainly it _ought_ to be a _sealed volume_ -- "to the fairest portion of the community.""
• "_Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by photographs, per volume_ ..."
• "Oh, to be a school-boy again in a long gray coat and ridiculous pink stockings -- innocent and free -- with Esmeralda for my only love, and Athos and Porthos and D'Artagnan for my bosom friends, and no worse tribulation than to be told on a Saturday afternoon that the third volume was in hand -- _volume trois en lecture_ '."