From As We See 'Em by Anthony Anderson, 1900.

Here's a precursor to Carl Sandburg's Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories.  It's "a supposed specimen of aboriginal art" discovered in New Brunswick, 1851, from the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881.

From An American Family in Germany by John Ross Browne, 1866.

"Sloe poison," from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.

Here's a mischievous cheese that ogles women, from Bouffonneries de l'Exposition, 1868.

From The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1910.

From The Real Mother Goose, illustrated by Blance Fisher Wright, 1916.

From The Ohio Farmer, 1908.

From Life and Death or The Creeping Shadow by D. Lambden Flemming, 1873.

"This is the time when church-yards yawn," from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.

It's commonly believed that the Q sports a tail, but it's actually a tongue.  From The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, 1920.

From Tommy Toddles's Comic Almenak, 1862.