From English Illustrated, 1890.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

A non-slip cat's paw (a detail from an advertisement, date uncertain).

"Our tenants."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

From "The Fatal Potion" in The Sketch, 1903.

"It brings the Panther Woman to the screen!"

Here's a human-faced cat in the window, from Cartoons Magazine, 1919.

"Who says fight?"  From 1918.

A cat's eyes wax and wane with the moon.  From The Domestic Cat by Edward Howe Forbush, 1916.

"Ha! Tis he, the Maltese. Me rival," 1881.

Here's a cat o' nine tails from Cassell's, 1896.

"The night has a thousand eyes," from The Sketch, 1906.

"It was a curious room in semi-darkness," from Cassell's, 1896.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Before bad Photoshopping, folks pasted in crying babies whose heads are impossibly smaller than kittens'.  But as a general rule, a basket of kittens does go with just about any photo, in the proper proportion, of course.  From Die Bühne, 1926.

You've seen the memes, but you knew there had to be a first one.  "Camera catches cats in unusual pose" -- a headline in Popular Mechanics, 1908.

The secrets of How to Be Your Own Cat go back to the Meiji period of Japan, when cat people wrote books in between naps.  For example, the author of the Japanese classic I Am a Cat was himself a feline: "Choosing a kitten for the main character has a two-fold meaning as Sōseki was, in fact, himself a stray kitten" (Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson's introduction to Sōseki Natsume's I Am a Cat).  Our illustration from a 1906 edition of the book.

From 1881.