Allegedly, the mark of A was supposed to have a similar range as in the significantly less carefully written bars 5 and 13. The notation of A shows signs of underdevelopment and haste in this aspect, e.g., lack of the tie sustaining g (while the tie of e
1 is marked only in bar 44, at the end of the line), lack of the dot extending the e1 minim, lack of the returning g in bar 46. Therefore, in the main text we suggest the indications used by Chopin in bars 5 and 13.
The character of the 
hairpins in FE (→GE1,EE) is actually the one of a long accent nature, yet it is uncertain whether their arrangement in the 1st half of the bar was a result of Chopin's intervention or of the engraver's inaccuracy. In subsequent GE,s the mark was arbitrarily extended with an unexpected consistency (which is averaged by us).
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins