This superb book charts the complete history of the acoustic guitar from the sixteenth century, and the electric guitar over the past seventy years. It is a book both for players of all levels, amateur and professional, and also for music enthusiasts, whatever their interest: classical, jazz, flamenco, blues, country, rock and pop - music of the past and music of the present. Hundreds of guitars are described in painstakingly researched detail, with each presented in full colour photographs which reveal the overall shape as well as the intriguing detail