Complex sentence: Originally written in 1781, it was subsequently updated and enlarged in 1782 and 1783, and anonymously published in Paris in a limited, private edition of a few hundred copies in 1784.
Split into simpler sentences: Originally written in 1781, it was subsequently updated and enlarged in 1782 and 1783. It was then anonymously published in Paris in a limited, private edition of a few hundred copies in 1784.