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The
two most important collected editions of Hardy's works — the Wessex
Novels Edition (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1895-96) and in the
Wessex Editon (London: Macmilan, 1912) — contained an illustration
of one setting of each novel as frontispieces. Each volume of the Wessex
Novels Edition contained an etching by H. Mcbeth-Raeburn, and each volume
of the Wessex Edition contained a photograph by Hardy's friend Hermann
Lea. The settings frontispieces depict in both collected editions are
with one exception identical. The exception is Tess of the d'Urbervilles
where Hardy replaced Wellbridge Manor House (Wessex Novels Edition), which
had become a place of pilgrimage for tourists with an illustration of
the Froom Meadow. The main difference between to new frontispieces and
those of 1895-96 is the mode in which each of the originals for them had
been produced. Whereas the earlier edition contains an etching by Henry
Macbeth-Reaburn per volume the later edition features photographs. Initially
the frontispieces had been, like Hardy's texts, interpretations of part
of an existing region. This had now changed. Hardy's texts had increasingly
become interpreted as representations of mainly Dorset. This impression
is now emphasised further, the photos being no interpretation but an accurate
reflection of the respective real setting.
Click
on the title of the novel to display both frontispieces
Desperate
Remedies | Under
the Greenwood Tree | A
Pair of Blue Eyes | Far
from the Madding Crowd | The
Hand of Ethelberta | The
Return of the Native | The
Trumpet-Major | A
Laodicean | Two
on a Tower | The
Mayor of Casterbridge | The
Woodlanders | Tess
of the d'Urbervilles | Jude
the Obscure | The
Well-Beloved
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