One hundred and twenty copies of The Myth of Punch hand-set in Perpetua type have been printed on Teton paper for David Tibet and Durtro by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press in October 1999. David Tibet wishes to thank Barbara Halpern, and Fiorella Superbi at I Tatti, for permission to print this essay; also Giovanni Pagliarulo, Timoth d'Arch Smith, Cecil Woolf, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Robert Comings and Jeremy Reed for their assitance. The photograph of Count Stenbock is © Barbara Halpern 1999.