For the stylish bookworm equally enamored with “Madame Bovary” and Manolo Blahnik, a new series of books can satisfy both devotions.

The Spanish shoe designer has created a new cover design for the once-scandalous 19th-century novel by Gustave Flaubert. Mr. Blahnik’s artwork, featuring a woman donning see-through lace lingerie and blue-and-yellow stacked mules, will appear on 1,000 hand-numbered copies of a Penguin Classics edition of “Madame Bovary.” It is one of five classic novels whose covers have received designer makeovers in honor of the imprint’s 60th anniversary.

Of each limited edition text, 999 copies are on sale for about $200 dollars at AbeBooks.com. One copy, signed by the designer, is on the site’s online auction block until tomorrow night.

Fashion designer Paul Smith chose a subtly racy two-toned floral design for D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”; the graphic design duo Stephen Sorrell and Damon Murray created an austere brown paper wrapper with Cyrillic and English type for Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”; and a contemporary artist, Sam Taylor-Wood, decided on a simple black-and-white photograph for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night.” All of these prints are contained in a bespoke protective plastic case.

Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” underwent the most unorthodox transformation, thanks to architect Ron Arad. The book has no cover, and its case is adorned with a magnifying lens that alters the page-one text.

Each artist chose his favorite among the 1,300-plus Penguin Classics titles and was given free rein to draw up a cover design for it, according to the imprint’s publisher, Adam Freudenheim. Mr. Freudenheim said the limited edition books would likely appeal to “collectors of all kinds, admirers of the designers, as well as people who particularly like the books they chose.”

Mr. Blahnik, whose shoes were popularized by HBO’s “Sex and the City,” told AbeBooks.com that his “Madame Bovary” cover is an ode to the frivolous. “This is a novel about the dangers of frivolity,” he said.

“I usually focus on one part of the foot, the shoe,” Mr. Blahnik said. “For this, I had to consider a whole scene. There had to be a context, which is new for me. But I managed to sneak in a pair of shoes anyway. She wore good shoes.”

Proceeds from the sale will benefit English PEN — a nonprofit organization that advocates for authors’ rights and their freedom of expression. It’s a fitting choice: After the story of the adulterous Emma Bovary was published in the pages of a French literary journal, Flaubert was tried and acquitted in French court for “offenses against morality and religion.”