The phrase "a splendid volume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a book or collection of works that is impressive or of high quality.
Example: "The library recently acquired a splendid volume on the history of art that has quickly become a favorite among patrons."
Alternatives: "an exquisite book" or "a magnificent work".
Arthur Kirsch managed to reconstruct these lectures in a splendid volume where we find that Auden believed the storm in Lear was not, as it were, a great big metaphor for what was going on in Lear's head.
Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
That splendid volume sets a very high standard of comparison, but Mr. Chernow's book is excellent in its own right.
As we struggle in a rising tide of first world war books, seize this splendid volume to stay afloat.
That was the unlikely cross-pollination at the heart of so many of the classics which are so rightly celebrated in this splendid volume.
And for sheer visual pleasure you won't do better than this splendid volume of close-up color photographs of patterning in Mughal art from the 16th to 19th centuries.
And Hare is not the only person to note a Wildean spirit in the prose of the actor's own two splendid volumes of autobiography – "the same heroic cheerfulness in the face of disaster", as the dramatist puts it.
In the 9th century a still elegant style was used for both patristic and classical works in splendid volumes destined for the imperial library or for presentation copies, such as the copy of Gregory of Nazianzus (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) made for the emperor Basil I between 879 and 883.
"These two splendid volumes, whose illustrations and maps would of themselves be enough to make them a valuable possession, are a narrative of a most adventurous journey from Canton to Mandalay.
Separately only in principle; there is by now no way quite to sunder them, though Boswell scholars -- mainly Frederick A. Pottle -- have issued 12 splendid volumes of his journals, while Johnson scholars labor to free, as they put it, the Doctor's voice from the voice that Boswell gave him.
