the french system looks bad when the volume is laid on a table, but has another advantage: in multi-volume sets, the numbers on the spine read in the natural se

the french system looks bad when the volume is laid on a table, but has another advantage: in multi-volume sets, the numbers on the spine read in the natural sequence, left to right and top to bottom. By the way in Italy, in our usual anarchy, both systems are in use :-)