Oliver Twist: 19/24, The Jew and Morris Bolter both begin to understand each other

‘What time tomorrow shall we say?’ ‘Will ten do?' Asked Fagin adding as Mr Claypole nodded assent , ‘What name shall I tell my good friend?' ‘Mr Bolter,’ replied Noah, who had prepared himself for such an emergency. ‘Mr Morris Bolter. This is Mrs Bolter’. ‘Mrs Bolter’s humble servant,’ said Fagin, bowing with grotesque politeness. ‘I hope I shall know her better very shortly’…..‘She calls me Noah as a sort of fond way of talking’ said Mr Morris Bolter, late Claypole, turning to Fagin. ‘You understand?’ ‘Oh yes, I understand-perfectly’, replied Fagin, telling the truth for once.’

George Cruikshank supplied twenty-four engravings for the first edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens between February 1837 and April 1839. It was Dickens’s second novel published by Richard Bentley. After Dickens's death in 1870, Cruikshank made the claim that it was he who had originated Oliver Twist, a claim which Dickens's biographer and confidant, John Forster, refuted by referring to Dickens's letters. The plates for that novel certainly reflect Cruikshank's extensive knowledge of the London underworld.