MARTIN ANDREWS is a printing historian and a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. He has published numerous articles and books on Robert Gibbings (2003), Fox Talbot and Allen W. Seaby (both Two Rivers Press, 2014).

Rena Gardiner: Artist & Printmaker includes nearly 200 illustrations, many of which have never been published before. As well as tracking down lost paintings and rare copies of her books, the has contributed a full, meticulous list of her cards, books, leaflets and prints. Martin Andrews spent time with Rena Gardiner and is thus admirably qualified to write both the biographical background and an account of a style that was hers, and hers alone.