The slentando - - indication was almost certainly added to A after [FC] had been finished, which is indicated by its absence in FE (→EE1). In GE the dashes marking the range thereof were led only to the middle of bar 187, while in EE2, in which the indication was added on the basis of GE1, there are no dashes at all.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE
notation: Verbal indications