In view of the deletions in A one can understand that the engraver of GE (→FE→EE) omitted the 
sign written there. However, the deletions clearly concern the L.H. part only, and not the hairpin, hence we include it in the main text. The range of the sign is also questionable, since the upper arm is clearly shorter than the lower one. It is a frequent situation in Chopin's autographs, however, generally it is the context or similar places that allow us to guess the composer's intention. In this case, leading crescendo makes sense both to the top most note of the passage and to the minim in the next bar: it is confirmed by the notation of analogous bars 32 and 81, in which the hairpin reaches the top most note in one case and the end of the bar in the other one.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Errors in GE, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
