From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

You've heard that money makes the world go around, but it's actually bunny.  From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Haverford College Athletic Annual and 1900 Class Book.

If not the White Rabbit, here's a white rabbit from Clara in Blunderland, 1902.

This fairy on a bunny appears in a book entitled Yachts and Yachting, by Frederic Schiller Cozzens (1887), which proves that one really needs no excuse to work in bunny-riding fairies.  This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

From Rabbits and Dollars, the Book that Teaches Coined Rabbitology, 1920.

This is the best rabbit-poking-a-jack-o'-lantern-with-a-stick we've seen all year!  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.  [For Gordon Meyer.]

From Robert Greene: His Life and Works by Nikolai Storozhenko, 1881.

Santa Claus is really the Easter Bunny, as revealed in St. Nicholas magazine, 1915.

From Robert Greene: His Life and Words by Nikolai Il'ich Storozhenko, 1881.

From St. Nicholas magazine.

"Do I look like a rabbit, sir?"  From The Tame Fox and Other Sketches by G. Finch Mason, 1897.

From Robert Greene: His Life and Works by Nikolai Storozhenko, 1881.

Pictured first is an ancient precursor to the Rabbit-Duck Illusion (1892), excavated from the Hopewell Mound City Group in Ohio and depicted in The Antiquarian (1897).

An illustration from A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser (1899).  The caption reads: "The rabbit and the monkey who live in the moon."

The title page to Robert Greene's "Groundwork to Coney Catching," reproduced in The Highway of Letters by Thomas Archer (1893).

"A man shot by a rabbit," from Peter Penniless: Gamekeeper and Gentleman by George Christopher Davies, 1884.

An illustration from The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H Rider Haggard (1911).  The caption reads: "My! Isn't she a beauty?"

An illustration from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum (1906).