Not one of them is classical, but the sixty-five superb acoustic and electric guitars from 1834 to 1998 featured in this beautiful little book are definitely classics. The team that produces Pomegranate's long-running and highly popular "Classic Guitars wall calendar brings us a pocket jewel of a book. Robert Shaw's introduction concisely describes the guitar's evolution and the twentieth-century explosion of creativity that has resulted in thousands of top-notch luthiers and millions of instruments worldwide. Michael Tamborrino supplies luminous full-color studio photographs of history's most significant--or just plain coolest--guitars, with illuminating technical and cultural notes by shaw. Sumptuously produced, inexpensive, and full of absorbing information, "Classic Guitars is an obvious choice for those with a guitarist on their gift list. And by now, everybody in the world probably knows a guitarist.