Kelly & Walsh was a notable Shanghai

Shanghai

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-based publisher of English language books, founded in 1876, which currently exists as a small chain of shops in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 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

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, Singapore

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, Tokyo

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, and Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

. It moved to Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 following the occupation of China by the Japanese

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, and was ultimately sold to book sellers Swindon Book Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Selected publications

• Eitel, Ernest J., Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects In Three Lectures, 1873.
• Giles, Herbert A., A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East, 1878.
• Wei, Yuan, Chinese Account of the Opium War, 1888.
• De Havilland, Walter, The ABC of Go: The national war game of Japan, 1910.
• D'Auxion de Ruffe, Reginald, Is China Mad?, 1928.
• 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.
• McHugh, J.N., A Handbook of Spoken "Bazaar" Malay, 1953.
• Lai, T. C., Magic Mountains: the Art of Yu Chengyao, 1987.