'The text for this present edition is a ballad version based on a chapbook of 1640, "The History of the Two Children in the Wood, or, The Norfolk Gentleman's Last Will and Testament, etc." ' - book jacket.
The old ballad of the babes in the wood by Edward Ardizzone. ISBN 0370011341. Published by Bodley Head in 1972. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.