Among the numerous other examples with mottoes derived from sacred
history, special mention, as showing the connection between the sign of
the shop and its incorporation in the Mark, may be made to the following
printers of Paris: D. De La Noue, who not only had “Jesus” as the sign
of his shop, but also as his Mark; J. Gueffier had the “Amateur Divin”
as his sign, and an allegorical interpretation of the device, “Fert
tacitus, vivit, vincit divinus amator,” as a Mark; Guillaume Julian, or
Julien, had “Amitie” as his sign, and a personification of this (Typus
Amicitiæ) as his Mark, with the motto “Nil Deus hac nobis majus
concessit in usus”; Abel L’Angelier (and his widow after his death)
adopted the sacrifice of Abel as the subject of his Sign and Mark, with
the motto “Sacrum pinque dabo nec macrum sacrificabo”; and the motto of
both the first and the second Michel Sonnius was “Si Deus pro nobis,
quis contra nos?”
[Illustration: PETIT AND KERVER.