If I understand the question correctly, I believe you're asking about terms that were more so used with printed materials and documents. Example, an encyclopedia would have volumes. That means that the encyclopedia is a set of books and the books are numbered volume 1, volume 2, volume 3 excetera. Issue would refer to either how many times in which a set has been printed or as in comic books an issue could be one comic book within a volume which would be a set or a series then within the medium. I hope this helps.