The Black Dogs / Los Perros Negros

Two black dogs stand beside a traveler in this little tale from the old Calleja booklets. Here are the surviving color covers, alongside the renewed pictures used for the new English edition.

Get this tale in paperback or Kindle →

The paperback’s The Original page shows the surviving front cover in black and white. Here you can enjoy its colors and compare the work of renewal. Tap a picture to enlarge it.

Now published. The Black Dogs is available in English as a paperback and on Kindle. The English front below is the cover of that edition. Spanish artwork is shown for comparison; it does not imply a separately published Spanish edition.

Front cover — then and now

Los Perros Negros: surviving spanish cover — **Surviving Spanish cover**Color photograph · damage and inventory marks retained

Los Perros Negros: revised spanish artwork — **Revised Spanish artwork**Repaired frame and renewed color

The Black Dogs: English edition front cover — **English edition cover**Adapted lettering · current English edition

Back cover — then and now

Los Perros Negros: surviving spanish back cover — **Surviving Spanish back cover**Color photograph · damage and inventory marks retained

Los Perros Negros: revised spanish back artwork — **Revised Spanish back artwork**Repairs and inherited AI reconstruction

Bringing the pictures back into the light

The front was repaired from new photographs of the surviving cover. Where the left ornament was damaged, the intact right side helped recover the frame’s shape. Surviving artwork was kept, with local repairs and color adjustments. Those choices are interpretations, not proof of the exact colors when the booklet first appeared.

The back combines surviving artwork with local repairs. An earlier AI reconstruction remains in part of its damaged border; it is not an untouched historical print. The English edition carries the same repaired front with English lettering.

The six pictures inside the new book were reconstructed with AI tools from fresh photographs of the original illustrations. They follow the old scenes but may change individual strokes and details. They should not be mistaken for digitally cleaned original printing plates.

The back-cover cartoon bears the signature associated with Ramón Cilla. That attribution belongs to the cartoon; it does not identify the artist of the front cover or the interior pictures. The historical booklet is marked Series III, Tome 45; “Volume 23” is its place in our modern collection.

The photographs stay separate from the renewed pictures. This page offers cover comparisons, rather than a complete facsimile of every original leaf.