Learned and right royal ...

The spirit of liberty : papers and addresses of Learned Hand --
I was assuming that "The Learned Hand" was a pseudonym, but it turns out that the author was in fact christened Learned Hand, or in full Billings Learned Hand, his mother's maiden name having been Learned. "His mother's family traditionally used surnames as given names" says Wikipedia -- which could have unfortunate consequences; I have several cousins who bear the no doubt honourable but somewhat infelicitous surname of Daft.

I'm now puzzling over a late Victorian or Edwardian heraldic binding, with an earl's coronet, a Tudor rose and the House of Commons portcullis on the spine, and a coat of arms on the boards which must have some royal connection, as the central escutcheon shows the three lions of England quartered with three fleurs-de-lys. The supporters are some kind of cross between a lion and a goat, I think ...