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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 69-71

No sign in A

in FC & FE

 in GE

   in EE

The  asterisk, added both in FC (→GE) and FE (→EE), cannot be authentic. The notation of A implies that the pedal depressed on the 3rd beat of b. 68 should be held to the end of the Prelude; moreover, both the sonic effect of such pedalling and no final  mark are typical of Chopin and are to be found in the endings of a number of his compositions. The individual sources slightly differ in the placement of this , hence we assume that there are two slightly different versions.
The pedalling in the last bar is an arbitrary revision of EE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, FE revisions, Fontana's revisions

notation: Pedalling

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw