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have been published. At present the
press is very active and fertile, and the
number of boosellers in the fine street
called Merceria is very considerable. I
found in no one place so many old au-
thors on the subject of music as here ;
and as to the new, I met with many that
I was unable to find elsewhere, particu-
larly the first volume of Padre Martini's
History of Music. The principal book-
sellers in Venice are Pasquali, Remondini,
Bettinelli, Occhi, and Antonio di Castro.
The art of engraving music there seems
to be utterly lost, as I was not able to find
a single work printed in the manner we
print music in England. In the first
place there is no such thing as a music
shop throughout Italy, that I was able to
discover. Indeed Signor di Castro, a spi-
rited bookseller, one of the four above-
mentioned, has published a proposal for
printing music with types, in the man-
ner attempted by Mr. Fought, but has
met with small encouragement, having
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