Engraver and printer George Thomas Andrew was born on July 21, 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 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, MA. 

After John's death in 1870, George continued on as an engraver and eventually switched from woodengraving to metal-plate engraving, and then to photogravure. George would become 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 of George's skill to print the works of Edward Curtis's major project, "The North American Indian, Vol. 1-11," to critical acclaim. John Andrew and Son would then become a part of 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, some of whom have gone on to participate in the Edward Curtis Legacy Foundation. George died in Brookline, MA on October 30th, 1916.