Mid 19th-Century “DAY BOOK” commercial ledger Repurposed as Victorian Scrapbook For Sale

Sylvanus Lehman / May 24 1814 / His Book.”22 pages front and backAntique commercial day book later repurposed as a Victorian scrapbook/commonplace book, containing period engravings, poetry, music, newspaper clippings, sentimental and humorous material, Earlier handwritten accounting entries remain beneath and between the pasted material, giving the volume two distinct historical lives.The surviving handwritten pages appear to be more like commercial arithmetic/bookkeeping exercises, with problems involving things such as cloth, butter, wine, ship partnerships, estate division, etc.
Only a small portion of the original accounting material survives visibly because later someone turned the book into a Victorian scrapbook/commonplace book.