William Butts gave The Private Library a ten page review in the Journal of the Manuscripts Society, Vol. 74, No.4 (Fall). It concludes:
“The Private Library is one of those books that,
when you turn the last of its 540 pages, makes
you sigh with pleasure….
This densely informative, thought-provoking and
entertaining volume proves as stimulating an
experience as the room it studies and celebrates.”