From The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco and illustrated by William Nicholson, 1922.

Here's a fairy godmother transforming a rabbit (presumably to be presentable for the prince's ball that evening).  From Placing American Wildlife Management in Perspective (date unspecified).

Q: "Why did Lewis Carroll?"

A: "Because Alice threw the looking-glass!"

—The Sketch, 1901

Here's a precursor to the inept magician Gob Bluth in Arrested Development, who always asks about the return policy on rabbits and doves.  From Die Muskete, 1940.

Artist unknown, ca. 1909.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"Vintereventyr" by Theodor Kittelsen, ca. 1920.

Here's a rabbit magician (a detail of an Easter postcard, date uncertain).  We had previously uncovered this giant rabbit magician pulling a man out of his hat, from 1910.

Mr Bunny, His Book by Adah L. Sutton.

The Black Cat, from March, 1896.

From A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry by Samuel Adams Drake, 1884.

"Woman with a rabbit's head listening to a man with a dog's head playing a horn."  Circa 1890.

The umlaut over the second O is here revealed to refer to rabbit ears.  From The Oölogist, 1896.

From Mother West Wind "When" Stories by Thornton Burgess, 1920.