Six months before Oliver Twist finished its serial run in Bentley's Miscellany, the publisher, Richard Bentley, brought out the completed text, with all the illustrations, as a three-volume novel. Although Dickens was known to be the author, the book was still published under the name of "Boz." At Dickens's request, a new title page, giving his real name, was substituted within a week of the publication day, November 9, 1838. George Cruikshank's frontispiece illustrates "Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys."