Line Drawings in Classic Literature

I love the line drawings in the classics and think it is a real shame that popular books now don't tend to have them. I recently finished an essay for University about the line drawings in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd with my own critical opinions on them. They are not my favourite line drawings. Some are shown below:

Far from the Madding Crowd was initially published in serial form in the Cornhill magazine in 1874, 12 editions in total - one for each month. Each one was accompanied by a line illustration by Helen Paterson Allingham (a lady illustrator, yay!)

I found the illustrations to be overly romanticized, but beautifully drawn. Some of my favourite line drawings have been in the Dombey and Son editions (Dickens) and also the line drawings in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.

Below is my favorite line drawing, taken from The Woman in White.

Taken from this edition:

If I had the skills I would illustrate my own novels. Would you?