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Lore refers to fictional stories, mostly concerning myths, fantasy, etc.

Volume usually refers to one text document (usually a book, before the widespread usage of computers) in a series of documents which often (but not always) relate to each other.

The "volume[s] of... lore" probably refers to the contents of the narrator's home library, given that the narrator is in his studio apartment throughout the poem.

The narrator describes his books as quaint, curious, and forgotten, which suggests that they were just old books that nobody really cared about.

In the next stanza, the narrator explains that "Eagerly [he] wished the morrow. Vainly, [he] had sought to borrow from his books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore..." i.e., He was up late one right, reading old books to try to distract himself from thinking about Lenore, who was his (dead) significant other.

...But skimming through the old books apparently didn't help.

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