From The Sanitary News, 1886.

From The Child's Own Poetry Book by Horace George Hroser, 1887.

A frog serenades the moon, but why presume the moon is interested?  By the way, did you know that the phrase "the man in the moon is a bachelor" delivers but a single Google result?  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

Here's a precursor to the song "The Man in the Moon (is a Lady)," in the musical Mame (1966).  From Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion, 1904.  See our previous proof that the craters of the moon line up exactly with the Mona Lisa's facial features.

From Poems & Songs by Robert Burns, 1893.

"His saul abune the moon," from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock, 1896.

"The moon is on the wain," from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.

"The poor old soul was bent with toil," from St. Nicholas magazine.

"They danced in the moonlight on the sward," from Bladys of the Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould and illustrated by Frederick Henry Townsend, 1897.

"We must wish," from A Missing Witness by Frank Barrett, 1897.

From The Man in the Moon, Vol. IV.

"He was quite unchanged, the dear old Moon!"  From Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen (1906) by Gordon Browne.

A full moon from L'Expédition du Tegetthoff by Julius von Payer, 1878.

"The moon emerges once more from behind the cloud, and lights up the pure, pale face."  From Mona St. Claire by Annie E. Armstrong, 1897.

"The big sky-man that makes the moons," from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.

"It seemed to Elma ... that the sea moaned in an unreasonable and very dreadful manner."  From Wild Kitty by Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, 1897.

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Here are some vintage mock moons from American Explorations in the Ice Zones by Joseph Everett Nourse (1884).