It was a hefty volume, the sort you lay out as eyewash, but never expect to open.

Peterson's hefty volume combines a scholar's knowledge of the nature and character of fish with an artist's eye for preparing it.

The title of this hefty volume is a little misleading.

Eighteenth-century libelles were much heftier volumes than their single (or half) sheet predecessors.

She might simply be reading the places on a map whose cooking she has discovered, codified and delivered to America in five hefty volumes.

When it finally did, in two hefty volumes in 1996, everyone understood why.

The second, hefty volume picks the story up with the young hero and his dragon on their way to the land of the elves.

The hefty volume - coupled with declining interest rates - gave investment houses a lift.

Good reading to all, and a warning, too: avoid post-Christmas backache by having these hefty volumes delivered from the store.

Most of these are hefty volumes, averaging just under 500 pages.