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I wanted to highlight that this use of "let alone" is only for the negative construction where "let alone" means the same thing as "much less".
In a more positive construction "let alone" means the same as "not to mention" while both not letting it alone and still mentioning it. The earliest reference in the OED is of this construction:
Before this use, to "let alone" was to "leave alone" and dates back to the old English.
I'm not sure when the negative construction of "let alone" first emerged, but it's no more than two hundred or so years old.