There is a way - online, to find out what is in Purslow's Foggy Dew book, and to look at the original manuscript info on each song - but it is very long winded!!

Go to the EFDSS web site and look at the VWML search site.
Puslow's Foggy Dew is catalogue by Steve Roud as - X5216 (Roud Id. No.) - but you can get the same list by entering - Foggy Dew in the "Source" field.

If you do this you get a list of all the songs in the book. You can do the same for each of the other Purslow books also.

THen go to the Take Six Archive web site (still The Efdss) and you can search for each song by any of the criteria listed.
It is, as I say long winded, but getting to the original material is great!!

Tim Radford (who spend hours poring over these sites)