In addition to the 
mark at the end of b. 39, A (→GE→FE,EE) includes the same mark also before the 1st chord in b. 41. A more detailed analysis of A reveals that in the middle of b. 40 there were initially 
marks, eventually erased and most probably replaced with the first mark. Therefore, it seems that Chopin initially wrote two pedals in b. 39-40, one from the 2nd beat of b. 39 to the middle of b. 40 and another encompassing the 2nd half of b. 41 (to the preserved mark) before shortening the first pedal and removing the second, inadvertently leaving the asterisk at the beginning of b. 41. EE added the allegedly overlooked mark yet without taking into account the change of chord in the middle of the bar; this pedalling cannot come from Chopin.
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category imprint: Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations
issues: EE revisions, Corrections in A, Errors resulting from corrections, Errors of A
notation: Pedalling