ALKEN, HENRY. Tutor's Assistant, London: Thomas McLean 1823, oblong folio, new wrappers, folding chemise and morocco-backed slipcase (rubbed), minor marginal soiling, FIRST EDITION, 6 hand-colored crayon-manner engravings by Alken, each depicting several comic scenes with captions, Tooley 59, bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon -- Sir JOHN DEAN PAUL [and HENRY ALKEN]. [Trip to Melton Mowbray, London 1822], plates 1-5 only (of 14), narrow oblong 4to (plates 1-2) and folio (plates 3-5), matted on two large sheets set into oblong folio modern buckram portfolio, title label on upper cover, mats a trifle soiled, plates 2, 3 and 4 each with a neatly repaired 2-inch tear, some rubbing to captions (unexamined out of mounts), 5 finely colored aquatints showing various stages of a journey by carriage, engraved by Alken (according to Schwerdt, III:3) after drawings by J.D. Paul, Abbey Life 488, Tooley 363; together 2 vols.