compendium

“Inside the Owner’s Box” is partly a memoir of purchasing his hometown team, partly a compendium of his interviews with other sports executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Bury Me Already” throws a sudden cross-country move, a pregnancy, a pandemic and a few other life-changing events into the mix in her latest compendium of long-form stories, stick-figure sketches, and three-panel gags.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Speaking afterwards, Swayne told the BBC, Hilaire Belloc's cautionary tales were his "favourite reading and a compendium of wisdom".

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

In the 1790s, the Scottish artist James Wales employed both men to depict ancient Indian architecture for a compendium of Indian landscapes, “Oriental Scenery,” published 1795-1807/8.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s compendium of catchy regional folk songs and dances, was the most successful musical publication of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The sequel is tentatively titled “Filthy Healthy Cravings”: a compromise, perhaps, between recent salad-centric compendia and the permissive indulgence of Chrissy Teigen’s cookbooks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

“Legal compendia are among the foundational reference works in every civilization.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

They should have, he argues, and to demonstrate that he is perfectly serious, Fussell goes through the Handbook, with meticulous care before concluding that it is a "compendia of good sense".

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

Thank Naxos Records for its compendia of Barber’s orchestral music and of Schuman’s symphonies, both timed to coincide with the centenaries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011

B, though familiar with ΙΣ, and a few other of the most ordinary abbreviations, knows nothing of these compendia: which certainly cannot have existed in the earliest copies of all.

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

The effect of these two compendiums is to take us back to Wilde himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Popular Bachardy books like “Hollywood” and “Stars in My Eyes” are compendiums of many of those movie star drawings, and lots of them are very good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023

Its probable origin is Indian; Indian story compendiums too have a fondness for frame stories, for Russian doll-style stories within stories, and for animal fables.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2021

What of those formidable compendiums in which the multitudinous activities of man are kept so jealously apart?

From Art by Clive Bell