No pedalling indications in this bar is most probably a result of revision of GE2op (→GE3op), aiming at unifying bar 4 and 20. As far as the placement of the sign is concerned, it is only the version of A that is authentic, the remaining are most probably a result of a routine interpretation of indications by engravers or simply an inaccuracy in reproducing the base text.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccuracies in FE, GE revisions
notation: Pedalling