In 1821 appeared a pseudonymous work Three Nights in Perthshire by Percy Yorke Jr., written by Robertson's friend Thomas Atkinson.
[7] He died of cholera on 6 October 1854, and was buried in Glasgow Necropolis, where his friends placed a memorial obelisk, with medallion portrait.
[5] Robertson's gift for story-telling, his love of Scottish poetry, and his tact and shrewdness, won him friendships and success, and his place of business became a rendezvous for local men of letters, such as William Kennedy.
This he followed up with four similar series, and in 1846 with a separate volume of Songs for the Nursery, praised by Lord Jeffrey in a letter to the publisher.
[5] Two series of The Laird of Logan, Scottish stories narrated by Robertson himself and others, appeared in 1835 and 1837, and a complete enlarged edition, dedicated to Albert, Prince Consort, in 1841.
Of Kyle, Ayrshire, he was a reputed wit, supposed to have sat on a stone, Logan's Pillar, cracking jokes.
[14][15] Robertson also published William Motherwell's Poems (1832, 1847, 1849) and Andrew Henderson's collection Scottish Proverbs (1832); as well as the "Western Supplement" to Oliver and Boyd's Almanac, from 1824 onwards.