The accents in A are clearly long and this is how they were reproduced in GE1 (→FE). The engraver of EE, who, as it seems, considered long accents to be diminuendo signs, shortened the first one, most probably being convinced that it is an accent. In GE2 a similar operation was performed on both signs.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, GE revisions, EE inaccuracies
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins