 The Press was obliged to disburse 80 percent of the value of the books he had carried as 'incidental expenses', so even if they had got substantial orders they would still have made a loss.Few orders did in fact come out of the trip, and when Steer's box of samples returned, the London office found that they had not been opened further down than the second layer.When OUP arrived on Indian shores, it was preceded by the immense prestige of the "Sacred Books of the East", edited by Friedrich Max Müller, which had at last reached completion in 50 ponderous volumes.