The type of accent used in AI may raise doubts. We interpret it as a long accent, as the sign is clearly bigger than the short accents in bars 6 and 10. In the final version, Chopin rejected the accent, choosing a pair of 
signs in this and the next bar instead. In the main text we give the hairpins in a form being compatible with the notation of A to the greatest extent.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Long accents
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins