Kelly & Walsh
Kelly & Walsh was a notable Shanghai-based publisher of English language books, founded in 1876, which currently exists as a small chain of shops in Hong Kong specializing in art books.
Kelly & Walsh Ltd. was formed in 1876 by combining two Shanghai booksellers: Kelly and Co. and F. & C. Walsh. It was incorporated on July 1, 1885 and most active from the 1880s through the 1930s, with publications from cities including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Yokohama. It moved to Hong Kong following the occupation of China by the Japanese, and was ultimately sold to book seller Swindon Book Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong.
The Singapore branch of Kelly & Walsh operated a bookshop from the 1880s until 1956 and also published "200 recorded titles" between 1887 and the mid-1950s. It also set up its own printing and bookbinding department in 1899.
Selected publications
- Ball, J. Dyer
- *, Hong Kong, 1892.
- * ', Hong Kong, 1906.
- * ', Hong Kong, 1906.
- * ', Hong Kong, 1906.
- * Rhythms and Rhymes in Chinese Climes: A Lecture on Chinese Poetry and Poets, 1907.
- Balet, Jean Cyprien, Le Japon militaire : l'armée et la marine japonaises en 1910-1911, Yokohama, 1911.
- Bredon, Juliet
- * Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest..., Shanghai, 1922, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged.
- * The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Festivals and Customs, Shanghai, 1927
- * Sir Robert Hart, Shanghai, 1927
- * Chinese New Year Festivals, Shanghai, 1930
- * Hundred Altars, Shanghai, 1934
- Couling, Samuel, ', Shanghai, 1917.
- D'Auxion de Ruffe, Reginald, Is China Mad?, 1928.
- De Havilland, Walter, The ABC of Go: The National War Game of Japan, Yokohama, 1910.
- Eitel, Ernest J., London: Luzac & Co.; Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1873.
- Fa-Hsien, ', Shanghai, c. 1877. Co-published by Trübner & Co., London.
- Giles, Herbert A.
- * A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, Shanghai, 1898. Jointly published with Quaritch, London.
- * ', Shanghai, 1887.
- * A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East, 1878.
- * 古今姓氏族譜 A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, 1898.
- Hirth, F., ', Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1895. Jointly published with Georg Hirth, Leipzig and Munich.
- Hosie, Sir Alexander, Szechwan: Its Products, Industries and Resources, Shanghai, 1922.
- Lai, T. C., Magic Mountains: The Art of Yu Chengyao, Hong Kong, 1987.
- McHugh, J.N., A Handbook of Spoken "Bazaar" Malay, Singapore, 1953, 5th edition.
- Martin, W. A. P.
- * ', Shanghai, 1894.
- * ', Hong Kong, Singapore and Yokohama, 1912.
- Mollendorff, Paul Georg von
- * ', Shanghai: 1876. Co-published with Trübner & Co., London. Joint author: Otto Franz von Möllendorff.
- * ', Shanghai, 1896.
- * ', 4th ed., Shanghai, 1906.
- Plant, Cornell, Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges, Shanghai, 1921.
- Pott, Francis Lister Hawks, ', Shanghai, 1903, 1915.
- Stephenson, Edward S. and W. Asano, Famous People of Japan , Yokohama 1911.
- Wei Yuan, ', 1888. Edited and translated by E. H. Parker.
- Wen Yuan-ning, Imperfect Understandings, 1935.
- White, William Charles, Tombs of Old Lo-Yang, A Record of the Construction and Contents of a Group of Royal Tombs at Chin-t'sun, Honan, Probably Dating 550 B.C., 1934.
Book series
- China Coast Tales
- Hanlin Papers
- The Pagoda Library