It is not clear whether the mark entered in A on the 3rd beat of the bar should be understood as hairpins 
or as a long accent. The same may be said about the mark in GE which was nonetheless reproduced in FE (→EE) as an accent, and on top of that a short one. The similarity of the mark in A to the neighbouring marks in bars 26 and 28 makes us consider it to be a hairpin mark . Taking into account that in this context the difference between a long accent and a diminuendo mark of similar length is very slight, both in graphic appearance and in meaning, we give up the alternative reading (with the long accent).
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins