Campbell collection

Boccaccio's Il Decamerone

 Boccaccio's Il Decamerone

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard

An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard 

Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in London, to his Friends in the East

 Citizen of the World

Hebrew Melodies

First edition of Byron's Hebrew's Melodies with letter from T.J. Wise.

Local New Jerseyan Robert Cambell, Jr. (1917-1999) built a collection of mainly eighteenth century books, focusing on first editions. Though some of his books fall outside the eighteenth century, they illustrate his passions as a reader and collector. Most of the books that Campbell collected are bound in splendid collector’s bindings, which showcase the beauty of the works they contain. Notably, the Campbell Collection contains a second edition of Johnson’s Dictionary, a first edition of An Elegy Wrote in a Country Courtyard (1751), and eighteenth century reprint of Boccaccio’s Il Decamerone.

Campbell collection