Jon J Muth, a painter, has produced several lavish volumes for Vertigo, including writing, penciling, inking and coloring the 1998 one-shot Swamp Thing: Roots.

This lavish volume includes printed comics pages, as well as a number of McCay's rarely seen editorial cartoons for the Hearst newspapers, exposing the fools and follies of the 1920's.

Now a project need not be the cleaning of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to get its own lavish volume, with scientific articles about the chemicals used and sedimentary discoveries made.

Calling this lavish volume of overhead color photographs and maps of Venice merely "an atlas" is like referring to the Mona Lisa as "a picture."

The Fleuron was the Fleuron Society's journal of typography and it was produced in seven lavish volumes.

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Don Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters.

Whether the cook's taste is exotic or home-style, highly technical or rather haphazard, there are outstanding choices this season, ranging from lavish oversize volumes to stocking stuffers.

The illustrations in this lavish volume reveal the growth of the artist's imagination as he developed his haunting pictures through decades of labor.

This lavish volume, cheerfully titled "Hello Steve," features silk-screen prints and a lengthy discussion of his work written by Wheeler himself under the pseudonym Adam Gates.

This lavish volume reproduces all of Klimt's landscape paintings, many of them painted during his holidays in Austria and Italy.