George Thomas Andrew, engraver and printer, was born on 21 July 1842 in St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England. His father was engraver and printer John Andrew (1815 - 1870), who illustrated the first American version of Webster's Illustrated Dictionary in 1859. George was sent to Germany for formal training, and in 1864, while still a teenager, he helped his father illustrate that year's edition of the leading dictionary. It's unclear at which point the Andrews moved to the U.S., but by the late 1860s the father and son studio, John Andrew & Son, was established in Boston, Massachusetts. 

After John Andrew's death in 1870, George continued on as an engraver and eventually switched from woodengraving to metal-plate engraving, and then to photogravure. He illustrated books for Alfred Lord Tennyson, Louise May Alcott, and Edgar Allan Poe. George became a printer of major artworks and art collections throughout the U.S., copying the works via copperplate photomechanical process and printing them on fine papers, sometime in serial tomes. This included "Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections" (1909), the success of which led to the commission to print the works of Edward Curtis's major project, “The North American Indian,” volumes 1 to 11. John Andrew and Son merged with the Suffolk Engraving and Electrotyping, which completed the Curtis project (volumes 12 to 20).

Little is otherwise found on the life of George T. Andrew, though it is known that he married and had children. His grandson has served on the Board of Directors of the Curtis Legacy Foundation. George Thomas Andrew died in Brookline, Massachusetts on October 30, 1916.