From the award-winning team that produced the bestselling Ultimate Guitar Book comes the most comprehensive book about the electric guitar. Its A-to-Z format covers more than 120 makers from around the world and details their successes and failures through 1,200 colour studio-quality photographs.The book focuses on the iconic electric guitar with an introduction that places the electric guitar in a historical context, running from early acoustic instruments in the 16th century to amplification experiments in the 1930s. The main body of the book is the A-to-Z of brands, covering the key 65-year period from 1935 to 2000.