INDIA. – Jawaharlal NEHRU. Glimpses of World History. London: Lindsay Drummond Limited, 1949. Fourth edition, signed and inscribed by Jawaharlal Nehru, 8vo (213 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, dust-jacket (some loss to spine ends and bottom edge of lower panel). Note: the inscription reads: ‘To Edward Halliday, in memory of his stay in India and with all good wishes, Jawaharlal Nehru, 6.3.1954’. As one of the most prominent portrait painters of his day, Halliday was commissioned by many political figures, including Winston Churchill. He painted a portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru and also one of the interior of Teen Marti Bhavan, Nehru’s presidential residence in 1954. Provenance: Edward Halliday, painter (ink inscribed to on the front-free endpaper). – And a small archive of material relating to Jawaharlal Nehru (including Nehru’s ‘Letters From a Father to his Daughter’, signed by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947, 8vo, and three printed ‘New Year’ cards for the years 1957-58, 1959-60 and 1960-61, 5 photographs of Nehru with the stamp of photographer Stephen  D. Halliday verso, and two signed letters from Nehru’s sister- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, politician, diplomat and 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly. Edward Halliday also painted Vijaya’s portrait. Also includes a file of typed correspondence relating to Halliday’s portrait of Nehru, involving matters such as restoration and loaning for exhibitions, and four further books related to the Nehru family, two memorial programmes, and a mounted print of Halliday’s portrait of Nehru (small archive).