Martin Andrews was a museum and exhibition designer for many years, and since 1990 has been a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is a printing historian and has lectured widely in Britain and abroad and published numerous articles as well as an extensive biography of the author and artist, The Life and Works of Robert Gibbings (Primrose Hill, 2003; ISBN 9781901648317). He lives in Reading.