The first edition front cover for the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written by English author George Orwell published in 1949 by Secker and Warburg (London).
The image is used to identify the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, a subject of public interest.
Source: http://library.brown.edu/search/c?SEARCH=PR6029.R8+N49+1949b, Brown University Library