Sam Garriott Antonacci ~ Washington

Ode to a Grecian Urn
By Sam Garriott Antonacci
Seattle: Sam Garriott Antonacci, 2007. Edition of 10.

3 x 2.5" closed, 17.5" extended; 6 paged accordion fold book. Giclée prints of graphite and pen-and-ink drawings. Bound in black bookcloth with illustrated paper title on front cover. Housed in black cloth-covered box with colophon tipped in bottom and paper illustration on lid.

Grecian urns of different shapes and sizes dance across the pages of this miniature accordion book.
$175

Cultivated Plants of the Ranunculacae Family
By Sam Garriott Antonacci
Seattle: Sam Garriott Antonacci, 2006. Edition of 5.

2.75 x 2.87"; 10 pages. Casebound book with pen-and-ink botanical drawings printed on Frankfurt Zerkall paper. Bound in Japanese paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Housed in brown cloth box (3.5" x 3.87 x 1"), which fits into a brown mesh bag with pull closure.

Five pen-and-ink drawings by Antonacci: Caparis spinesa (caper plant); Papaver somniferum (poppy); anemone hortensis (garden anemone); Adonis vernalis (bird's eye); Helleborus niger (black hellebora).
$175

Tiny Book of Chairs
By Sam Garriott Antonacci
2002. Edition of 5.

2.625 x 2.375" (opens to 13"), four page accordion fold with black paper-covered boards. Four Prismacolor on scratchboard drawings on Arches Black. Housed in 3.3125 x 3.1875" black cloth- covered clamshell box with paper title on front.

Antonacci prefers working small, as tiny books, she says, have an intimacy about them. In this "little book" she offers her drawings of four chair styles: Louis XVI, Stella, Farmhouse, and Daphne.
$175