Title: Correction to review below
Product review: This is the first volume of a nine volume critical edition of the Shahnameh. This is - where published, and the eighth volume has only just been published in late 2007 - the standard text now, replacing the Moscow edition. There are also some addition volumes of notes.To correct the previous review, there have been a number of translations of the Shahnameh into English. Dick Davis's prose translation (Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, Penguin, 928 pages) is slightly condensed but widely available. Reuben Levy's prose translation (The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia, Mazda, 423 pages) is more condensed: it's quite poor on the later historical period. The only full translation - full and in verse too - was by Arthur and Edmond Warner (The Sháhnáma of Firdausí, reprinted by Routledge in nine volumes, each volume at $180 or thereabouts).
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