I loved the process of picking my top 10 - winnowing and refining until I had the ideal bookshelf. It sums up the things I love - A slighty spooky, sensuous & sensual selection of art, beauty, and wit.
The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood
Fornasetti: Designer of dreams by Patrick Mauries
Armour wherein he trusted by Mary Webb
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Anthropology and a hundred other stories by Dan Rhodes
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
Perfumes: the guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
Misty annual 1980
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siécle Culture by Bram Dijkstra
The Readers Digest book of strange stories, amazing facts