The earliest work about in reverse time travel is unsure.

The Chinese novel

Enhancement to the Excursion toward the West (c. 1640) by Dong Yue highlights
mystical mirrors and jade doors that associate different moments. The hero Sun
Wukong turns back the clock to the "Universe of the People of yore" (Qin tradition)
to recover a supernatural ringer and afterward goes ahead to the "Universe
Representing things to come" (Tune line) to find a ruler who has been banished in
time. Nonetheless, the time travel happens inside a deceptive fantasy land made by
the antagonist to capture and divert him.[9] Samuel Chafe's Diaries of the 20th 100
years (1733) is a progression of letters from English representatives in 1997 and
1998 to negotiators previously, conveying the political and strict states of the
future.[10]: 95-96 On the grounds that the storyteller gets these letters from his
divine messenger, Paul Alkon recommends in his book Starting points of Cutting edge
Fiction that "the initial person who jumps through time in English writing is a
gatekeeper angel".[10]: 85 Enrage doesn't make sense of how the heavenly messenger
gets these reports, yet Alkon declares that Rankle "merits acknowledgment as the
first to play with the rich thought of time-travel as a curio sent in reverse from
the future to be found in the present".[10]: 95-96 In the sci-fi treasury Far
Limits (1951), proofreader August Derleth claims that an early brief tale no time
like the present travel is A Chronological error; or, Missing One's Mentor,
composed for the Dublin Scholarly Magazine[11] by a mysterious writer in the June
1838 issue.[12]: 3 While the storyteller trusts that a mentor will remove him from
Newcastle upon Tyne, he is shipped back in time more than 1,000 years. He
experiences the Revered Bede in a cloister and clears up for him the improvements
of the next few centuries. In any case, the story never clarifies whether these
occasions are genuine or a dream.[12]: 11-38 One more early work no time like the
present travel is The Progenitors of Kalimeros: Alexander, child of Philip of
Macedon by Alexander Veltman distributed in 1836.[13]