Shanghai of Today (1927) – The AS Watson Edition

Slightly confusing – the rather rare Shanghai of Today, published in 1927 was a souvenir album of thirty-eight Vandyke prints of the ‘Model Settlement’ published by the Shanghai/Hong Kong/Singapore house of Kelly & Walsh in 1924. I posted before on the K&W edition with a full padded morocco binding. The book came with an introductuion by the long time editor of the North-China Daily News, OM Green (See here for that post).

However, there appears to be another edition – published in 1927 by AS Watson (better known as a pharmacy company in Shanghai and Hong Kong), same cover as the Kelly & Walsh edition and published in Shanghai. Not sure why there are two editions or why Watsons was involved at all?