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The schirmer's is strange and complicated.  I have an edition like the peter's.  I think the editor of the schimer's went a little haywire in trying to put HIS interpretation across.

I had the very same reaction ... but to the sample from the Peters version (ed. Scholtz).   

I just had a look at Chopin’s First Editions Online, and the dynamics in the original French, German and English editions for this passage are far closer to the “Schirmer” pictured above (actually Mikuli’s edition, though Joseffy’s, also published by Schirmer, isn’t significantly different).

I also consulted the Paderewski edition, and the hairpins there do resemble Scholtz’s instead (i.e., crescendo in the first bar, decrescendo in the second bar).  There’s no acknowledgment of this discrepancy in the endnotes, though, so I wonder what the source was.

For what it’s worth, Scholtz’s notation of the melody as an inner voice (with extra noteheads of prolonged value and/or additional stems) is his own contrivance; it typifies the aggressive overediting found in his editions of Chopin.