I'm a lexicographer by trade, but some of my colleagues in the history department have been asked to do a historical dictionary of the country where we live. I tried a simple Google Scholar search, but what I found were critiques or analyses of dictionaries that documented languages as they have evolved (e.g. the Oxford English Dictionary), rather than dictionaries that provide information about the history of a particular place (e.g. Michael Anthony's Historical Dictionary of Trinidad & Tobago). So I was hoping that people here might know of articles that have examined or reviewed this type of reference work.
A simple research on « “historical dictionary” review » can offer you several interesting examples, especially if you happen to have access to JSTOR (you may also try to search for specific dictionaries followed by the same word). More specifically, the TLS published a very interesting review of the Virgil Encyclopedia two weeks ago; even though it is not technically a historical dictionary, the framework is reasonably similar. But overall, I am not sure that you will find reviews very helpful; criticism tends to focus on editing and coordination (quality of the cross-references, missing articles, uniformity in terms of formating), not on the contributions — mostly because an individual reviewer rarely has the knowledge to analyse accurately contributions made by dozens of different academics.