Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide of its type ever produced, covering decades of great instruments and the people who played them. 

You will find here thehighest quality photos of acoustic guitars produced by every significant maker, from Alvarez to Zemaitis, plus detailed information, and a host of action pictures of important players from pop, rock, jazz, country classical, blues, and folk.
 
An acoustic guitar need not be a simple brown box with a neck attached. Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia celebrates the unusual, the different and the purely bizarre in addition to the assured roots-based craft of the finest unadorned instruments, underlining the sheer diversity and variety of the acoustic stringed instruments that have been built and sold and played through three centuries.

Here areresonator guitars made since the 1920s by Dobro, National, and others, often with highly decorated metal bodies;revered flat-tops from Martin, Taylor, Gibson, and more;peculiarly shaped and oddly featured creations from many of the custom builders; early 20th-centuryharp guitars with extra strings and extended bodies;creative archtops from D’Angelico, Epiphone, Benedetto, and more; andplastic-equipped constructions from Ovation.

Thecomprehensive and informative text is in a clear A-to-Z formatorganized by brand name, written and researched by a unique team of the world’s leading authorities on the subject. Acoustic Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia shows in words and pictures just why and how the acoustic guitar continues to be themost popular musical instrument in the world.