Essays on social subjects / by Matthew James Higgins; with a memoir by Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
Essays on social subjects is an 1875 London book from Smith, Elder & Co., written by Matthew James Higgins and prefaced with a memoir by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell for a general reading public. Its two plates are sepia portrait studies: a soft-focus head-and-shoulders likeness with a handwritten signature beneath, and a full-length view of a bearded man standing beside an easel and a carved chair, useful to designers wanting Victorian photographic portraiture with warm, faded tones and formal studio staging.
