Of Hardy's fourteen novels of character and environment, only the first two — Desperate Remedies (1871) and Under The Greenwood Tree (1872) — were initially published in volume form. For the most part, Hardy first brought out his novels in monthly instalments in British literary magazines; only three were published in weekly parts, and only two — Two on a Tower (1882) and The Woodlanders (1886-7) — were published without illustration since the magazines in which those novels appeared (Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's) were customarily not illustrated. A complete listing of serial instalments and their relationship to chapters in the volume publications are given by J. Don Vann in Victorian Novels in Serial (New York: MLA, 1985), pages 82-91. In the following listing, "numbers" refers to monthly and "parts" to weekly instalments. Arlene M. Jackson lists artists and reproduces many of the illustrations in Illustration and the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1981).
1. A Pair of Blue Eyes, Tinsley's Magazine September, 1872-July, 1873 (11 numbers): il. J. A. Pasquier.
2. Far From The Madding Crowd, the Cornhill Magazine January-December, 1874 (12 numbers): il. Helen Paterson Allingham.
3.The Hand of Ethelberta, the Cornhill Magazine July, 1875-May, 1876 (11 numbers): il. George Du Maurier.
4. The Return of the Native, Belgravia Jan.-Dec., 1878 (12 numbers): il. Arthur Hopkins.
5. The Trumpet Major, Good Words January-December, 1880 (12 numbers): il. John Collier.
6. A Laodicean, Harper's New Monthly Magazine< December, 1880-December, 1881 (13 numbers): il. George Du Maurier.
7. Two on a Tower, Atlantic Monthly May-December, 1882 (8 numbers): not il.
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge, the London Graphic 2 January-15 May, 1886 (20 parts): il. Robert Barnes. "The novel also appeared serially in America in Harper's Weekly from 2 January to 15 May, 1886. It was set from proofs of the Graphic and published simultaneously, though instalments for 6 (and 13) March and 24 April (and 1 May) differed slightly in length. All Barnes' illustrations were reproduced save 3 (those of 17 April, 8 and 15 May)." (Richard Little Purdy, Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study [1954], 50-54).
9. The Woodlanders, Macmillan's Magazine May, 1886-April, 1887 (12 numbers): not illustrated.
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the London Graphic 4 July-26 December, 1891 (24 parts): il. H. Herkomer, D. A. Wehrschmidt, J. Syddall, and E. Borough Johnson.
11. The Pursuit of the Well-Belovéd, the Illustrated London News 1 Oct.-17 Dec., 1892 (12 parts): il. Walter Paget.
12. Jude the Obscure, Harper's New Monthly Magazine December, 1894-November, 1895 (12 numbers): il. William Hatherell.
Source: J. Don Vann, Victorian Novels in Serial (New York: MLA, 1985): 88-89.
References
1 H. L. Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. 2nd ed. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1986) 1: 30.
2 Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Art, A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London: Henry Graves and George Bell, 1905. Rpt. Kingsmead Reprints, 1970) 1 (A-D): 119.
3 E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976) I: 451.
4 Simon Houte, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Baron Publishing and the Antique Collectors' Club, 1978) 226.
The Illustrations for Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles in The Graphic, An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 44: 4 (July-26 December, 1891) by Hubert Herkomer and his Pupils, Messrs. Daniel A. Wehrschmidt, E. Borough Johnson, and Joseph Sydall.
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