 Despite that, Frowde became vital to OUP's growth, adding new lines of books to the business, presiding over the massive publication of the Revised Version of the New Testament in 1881 and playing a key role in setting up the Press's first office outside Britain, in New York City in 1896.Price transformed OUP.In 1884, the year he retired as Secretary, the Delegates bought back the last shares in the business.