Wherefore art thou, Shakespeare lovers?

That's the question Victoria Police detectives are posing after discovering a number of stolen antique items, including a collection of Shakespeare's works, during a recent drug raid in Melbourne's east.

Police seized the collection of blue-covered books, the titles of which include Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, as well as antique surgical instruments and an antique wireless radio during the raid at a home in Parkington Street in Kew on September 5.

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said officers now were attempting to find the owners of the stolen property.