"Saved by his nose," from Camp and Studio, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1890.

From The Ball of Yarn, 1854.

"The work of Time" from The Doctor's Family by Jules Marie Alfred Giradin, 1884.

The parts of the nose as indicators of character, from How to Know Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms by William Walker Atkinson, 1919.

From Le Salon de 1869 Charivarisé.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Here are prototypes of the novelty Groucho nose-and-glasses disguise, twenty-two years before Groucho's birth, from The 5 Alls by Thomas Hood, 1868.  Why no mustache?  It's to be painted on, naturally!

This precursor to the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of Fantasia appears in an 1885 edition of Goethe's Italian Journey.

An illustration from an 1856 issue of Punch magazine.

Five years before the birth of the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, an elephant man appeared in Punch (1857).

An illustration from a 1902 edition of Vaught's Practical Character Reader.  The caption reads: "The above illustration shows that two Roman noses are surely too many in one family, especially in husband and wife."

[Thanks, Gordon!]

An illustration from an 1860 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Total eclipse."

photo by Cobalt 123